Spectral growth conjecture for Salem numbers in W(E10)W(E_{10})

Let W(E10)W(E_{10}) be the Coxeter group under consideration, and let ρ(d4e)\rho(d4e) denote the spectral radius of an element d4eW(E10)d4e\in W(E_{10}). For each level nn, let ΛnR>1\Lambda_n\subset\mathbb{R}_{>1} be the set of spectral radii arising at s0s_0-level nn, let MnM_n and mnm_n denote its maximal and minimal extreme values, and let Λ^n\hat\Lambda_n be the subset of primitive Salem numbers in Λn\Lambda_n. Spectral Growth Conjecture. The maximal values satisfy

Mn=M1n,n1,M_n=M_1^n,\qquad n\geq 1,

while the minimal extreme values approximately satisfy

mnδn2Mn1,n3,m_n\approx\delta^{n-2}M_{n-1},\qquad n\geq 3,

for some 0<δ<10<\delta<1. Moreover,

Λ^nCrn,|\hat\Lambda_n|\sim C\cdot r^n,

with r5r\approx 5, and the maximal gap between consecutive elements of Λ^n\hat\Lambda_n decays exponentially, so that the primitive spectrum becomes increasingly dense as nn\to\infty. The approximation symbol indicates numerical proximity. These claims describe the experimentally observed spectral hierarchy in W(E10)W(E_{10}): the exact formula for MnM_n is proved in the source, while the scaling, exponential counting law, and density assertion remain conjectural.

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Kyounghee Kim, “Spectral Growth in W(E_10): Double Coset Filtration and Hilbert Geometry”, arXiv:2511.11525 (2025).

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